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Virginia Vertetis murder trial: Everything you need to know

Morristown Daily Record
Published 10:48 a.m. ET Oct. 7, 2017

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A jury found Virginia Vertetis guilty of murder in Morris County Superior Court Monday. Prosecutors contended that Vertetis purposely shot Gilhuley at her Mount Olive home in 2014 out of desperation that he was breaking up with her.
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Defense attorney's Edward Bilinkas, l, and Sara Sencer-McArdle with Virginia Vertetis as she is sentenced to 30 years in Morris County Superior Court. Vertetis was found guilty of murder in April after prosecutors argued that she purposely shot her ex-boyfriend, Patrick Gilhuley at her Mount Olive home in 2014 out of desperation that he was breaking up with her. May 23, 2017, Morristown, NJ.(Photo: Bob Karp/Staff Photographer)Buy Photo

The murder trial of Virginia Vertetis and her relationship with Patrick Gilhuley, a retired New York City police officer, will be the focus of the CBS TV series "48 Hours" slated to air Saturday night.

The hour-long show, titled "Moment of Truth," will be broadcast at 10 p.m. (ET/PT), and will focus on Vertetis, a former elementary school math teacher, and her trial from opening statements in the spring of 2017 through sentencing in May when the jury found her guilty of the murder of her on-again, off-again lover Gilhuley.

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Virginia Vertetis walks into the courtroom before she was sentenced to 30 years after she was found guilty of murder, prosecutors arguing she purposely shot her ex-boyfriend, Patrick Gilhuley at her Mount Olive home in 2014 out of desperation that he was breaking up with her. May 23, 2017, Morristown, NJ.(Photo: Bob Karp/Staff Photographer)

The show will include scenes from the courtroom in Morristown as well as interviews with Morris County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Troiano, defense attorney Edward Bilinkas, Vertetis' mother, Crainie Koellhoffer, Vertetis' third husband, Jim Faulkner, and forensics expert Jim Molinaro.

The trial

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Defense attorney Edward Bilinkas in Morris County Superior Court gives his opening arguments. Virginia Vertetis is accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend at her home in Mount Olive in March 2014.
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Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Troiano in Morris County Superior Court during opening statements. Virginia Vertetis is accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend at her home in Mount Olive in March 2014.
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Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Troiano giving his closing arguments in the Virginia Vertetis murder trial. Vertetis says she fatally shot boyfriend Patrick Gilhuley to death as he tried to beat and choke her at her Mount Olive home in 2014.
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Defense attorney Edward Bilinkas giving his closing arguments in the Virginia Vertetis murder trial. Vertetis says she fatally shot boyfriend Patrick Gilhuley to death as he tried to beat and choke her at her Mount Olive home in 2014.
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